Rose Garden Tips

Written by Kathy Burns-Millyard

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In spring of year, you will need to prune your rose bush. The blackened portions of your rose bush need pruned away to promote additional new growth over entire plant. While pruning your plant in spring season, pull weed starts so that your plant is not in competition for water or soil nutrients over growing seasons.

As you plan your rose garden and begin placement, planting roses of same color next to each other will enhance over all look of rose garden. Using too many flowers in one area though, can make entire rose garden look more jumbled than a wave of color.

One last thing for you to think about when creating and planning a rose garden is to remember to test your soil. Soil testers are widely available and relatively inexpensive. When testing your soil, your pH level is going to be most important for success with roses. A pH level of 5.5 to 6.6 is ultimate situation for raising a rose garden of your own.

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How to Attract Butterflies to Your Garden

Written by Kathy Burns-Millyard

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Butterflies are attracted to areas of your gardens where they can gather food for their offspring. The caterpillar will eat from plants while adult butterflies will sip on nectar of flowers. As your plants, shrubs, and flowers mature, amount of butterflies to your gardens will also increase. The plants and flowers that you put in your garden this year will attract only a few, but in years to come natural instinct of butterfly will lead them to your garden.

What is adult butterfly searching for in your gardens? The butterfly searches for areas to take shelter from high winds, rains, and summer storms. This is where trees and shrubs in your gardens become important in protecting butterfly and offering shelter. During normal, warm sunny summer day butterfly wants wide-open areas of your lawn and garden.

Butterflies will seek soft soil that is sandy-like to find water. The sand-like soil that allows water to puddle up after a rainstorm is a butterflies delight. The developing stages of caterpillar to butterfly are observed often in established butterfly garden.

By creating atmosphere in garden that offers shelter, food, water and fragrance butterfly is searching for you will have Butterfly Garden success.

This article is provided courtesy of The Garden Source Network - http://www.garden-source.com - a large gardening network devoted to helping you find all the gardening materials you need, such as Seeds, Live Plants, Roses, Trees and Beautiful decor. This article may be distributed and published on any website, as long as this statement and URL remain intact, and the website address is linked properly.